Jennifer A. Dlouhy

Vice President Joe Biden faces a tough sell in convincing Senate Democrats — including Kirsten Gillibrand — to back the deal the White House reached with congressional Republicans to temporarily renew expiring Bush-era tax cuts. Biden is trying to make the administration’s case in a closed-door luncheon right now with members of the Senate Democratic […]
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If President Barack Obama hoped to sell his tax cut deal to congressional Democrats, the White House picked an odd way to do it — by lobbing criticism at Sen. Chuck Schumer for his handling of the issue. The White House faces a backlash from congressional Democrats who say the president gave in to too […]
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In his latest staffing move since the Nov. 2 election, Rep.-elect Chris Gibson has tapped a Clifton Park, N.Y., native and Capitol Hill veteran to be his chief spokesperson. The new communications director, Stephanie Valle, has experience in upstate New York and in Washington. A 2005 graduate of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., Valle also […]
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In a long-awaited Defense Department report released Tuesday, the Pentagon says gay service members can openly serve in the armed forces without damaging the military’s strength or undermining its missions. But the Pentagon report on the military’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on openly gay service members shouldn’t end debate on the issue, said […]
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He may have won the Nov. 2 election, but Chris Gibson didn’t come out ahead in a different race today — the all-important House office lottery that determines where new lawmakers will work on Capitol Hill for the next two years. The contest over congressional real estate is random by design. Today, lawmakers picked numbers […]
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Chris Gibson and five other newly elected lawmakers from New York are in Washington, D.C. this week to get a crash course in Congress, complete with lectures on setting up Capitol Hill offices, navigating ethics rules and hiring staff. The more than 80 new House representatives elected on Nov. 2 have been in town since […]
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The Senate’s top Democrat just gave Sen. Chuck Schumer a promotion — putting the senior senator from New York in charge of coordinating the party’s communications and messaging for the next two years. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., announced Schumer’s new role — part of a broader overhaul of the Democratic leadership team — in […]
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At least one respected political observer in Washington has shifted his prediction about the House race between Republican Chris Gibson and Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy, on the heels of a Siena College poll showing Gibson had a nine-point lead. In his latest House ratings, Stuart Rothenberg categorizes the Gibson-Murphy match-up as a “toss up” that […]
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Bill Clinton is the face of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s latest fundraising appeal. In an e-mail today, the former president pleads with Gillibrand’s supporters to send her more campaign cash in the final week before voters head to the polls. The stated goal of the fundraising drive is to raise $50,000 by midnight Oct. 29 “to […]
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Political forecasters at the Cook Political Report today changed their rating of the contest between Democratic Rep. Scott Murphy and Republican Army veteran Chris Gibson, signaling the race could go either way on Election Day. According to the report, the race is now a “toss-up.” Previously, the Cook Political Report had placed the Murphy-Gibson contest […]
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